[Air-L] SciAm: Privacy in an Age of Terabytes and Terror

[Richard Forno]

Several interesting articles on privacy and security matters penned by  
some well-known researchers and experts in the field.    All appears  
in the August '08 Scientific American magazine.

Figured I would pass along some of the more salient ones and recommend  
checking the rest out if/when/as you are interested or have the  
chance.   Thought-inspiring, for sure.     --rick


Privacy in an Age of Terabytes and Terror
By Peter Brown

Introduction to SciAm's issue on Privacy. Our jittery state since  
9/11, coupled with the Internet revolution, is shifting the boundaries  
between public interest and "the right to be let alone"   .....  For  
all those reasons and more, the editors of Scientific American present  
this issue devoted to the future of what Supreme Court Justice Louis  
D. Brandeis called “the right to be let alone.”

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=privacy-in-an-age

... and some selected article links -- there's more on their site from  
this month's issue too ....

Internet Eavesdropping: A Brave New World of Wiretapping
By Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau

As telephone conversations have moved to the Internet, so have those  
who want to listen in. But the technology needed to do so would entail  
a dangerous expansion of the government's surveillance powers

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=internet-eavesdropping

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How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People
By Katherine Albrecht

A privacy activist argues that the devices pose new security risks to  
those who carry them, often unwittingly

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-rfid-tags-could-be-used

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Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?
By Daniel J. Solove

Young people share the most intimate details of personal life on  
social-networking Web sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, portending  
a realignment of the public and the private

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=do-social-networks-bring

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How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security
By Esther Dyson

Many issues posing as questions of privacy can turn out to be matters  
of security, health policy, insurance or self-presentation. It is  
useful to clarify those issues before focusing on privacy itself

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-loss-of-privacy-may-mean-loss-of-security